Ingram Content Group Inc., a US-based provider of physical and digital services to the book industry, and EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) have announced that more than 400,000 e-book titles from EBSCO eBooks have been integrated with Ingram's OASIS content platform and are now available to academic libraries worldwide.
The collaboration between EBSCO and Coutts Information Services, Ingram Content Group's academic library company, is claimed to have created one of the largest and most comprehensive content repositories of academic e-book content for libraries. Users of the OASIS platform that have their account enabled will have access to an expanded selection of scholarly, frontlist and award-winning e-book titles from leading publishers.
Users of the OASIS platform can view and select from e-books alongside print books, with no changes to existing and preferred workflows. Billing will be consolidated, offering libraries integrated acquisition services and invoicing for all EBSCO eBooks content.
The OASIS platform, Ingram's academic content platform for its library company Coutts Information Services, is an online library interface for bibliographic information and searching, book and e-book acquisition, collection development and workflow management. Through the OASIS platform, libraries are able to access a database of millions of titles; search, select and manage orders online; download records, including no-cost MARC downloads; monitor standing orders; manage approval plans and new title notification plans; track orders and access reporting information.
EBSCO's extensive collection of e-book titles allows for a comprehensive and powerful search experience - with every search, relevant e-book titles appear directly alongside other EBSCOhost databases, exposing users to the full depth of a library's offerings and increasing usage and visibility of the library's entire collection. EBSCO offers more than 420,000 high-quality e-book titles from leading publishers. Collections may be built from a growing selection of best-selling, frontlist and award-winning e-book titles across a wide range of subject matter or chosen from EBSCO's pre-packaged collections that are hand-selected by EBSCO's Collection Development team.
